Books 

• Finger, Anne. Past Due: A Story of Disability, Pregnancy, and Birth (Seattle: Seal Press, 1990).  

•  Fleischer, Doris Zames and Zames, Frieda. The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001).

• Fries, Kenny, ed. Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out (New York: Plume, 1997).

• Johnson, Harriet McBryde. Too Late to Die Young (New York: Picador, 2005).

• Linton, Simi. Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity (New York: New York University Press, 1998).

• Russell, Marta. Beyond Ramps (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1998).

• Shakespeare, Tom, Kath Gillespie-Sells, and Dominic Davies, The Sexual Politics of Disability: Untold Desires (London: Cassell, 1996).

• Shapiro, Joseph. No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement (New York: Times Books, 1994).

• Shaw, Barrett, ed. The Ragged Edge: The Disability Experience from the Pages of the First Fifteen Years of The Disability Rag (Louisville, Kentucky: Avocado Press, 1994).

• Sobsey, Dick. Violence and Abuse in the Lives of People with Disabilities (Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Publishing, 1994).Books

• Blackbridge, Persimmon and Gilhooly, Still Sane (Vancouver, BC: Press Gang, 1986).

• Brownsworth, Victoria and Raffo, Susan, eds., Restricted Access (Seattle: Seal Press, 1999).

• Clare, Eli, Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation (Cambridge: South End Press, 1999).

• Fries, Kenny, Body, Remember (New York: Dutton, 1997).

• Guter, Bob and Killacky, John, eds., Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories (New York: Harrington Park Press, 2004).

• Kaufman, Miriam, Silverberg, Corey, and Odette, Fran, The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability (San Francisco: Cleis Press, 2003).

• Luczak, Raymond, ed., Eyes of Desire 2: A Deaf GLBT Reader (Minneapolis: Handtype Press, 1993).

• McRuer, Robert, Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability (New York: New York University Press, 2006).

• McRuer, Robert, and Wilkerson, Abby L, ed., Desiring Disability: Queer Theory Meets Disability Studies (GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Volume 9, Numbers 1-2, 2003).

• Panzarino, Connie, The Me in the Mirror (Seattle: Seal Press, 1994).

• Tremain, Shelley, Pushing the Limits: Disabled Dykes Produce Culture (Toronto: Women’s Press, 1996).

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The University of California, Davis, is committed to ensuring equal educational opportunities for students with disabilities. An integral part of that commitment is the coordination of specialized academic support services through the Student Disability Center (SDC).

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This guide has been created to help individuals living with disabilities, and their family members, in the process of buying a home of their own. Here you can learn more about the five important steps in buying a home and about financial assistance programs that are available for you living with disabilities, who want to buy a home.

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Assuring your vital services can be accessed by Deaf people is as easy as making a phone call. Many Deaf people use Sign Language to communicate, and require interpreters when dealing with people not fluent in Sign. Bay Area Communication Access (BACA) is a San Francisco based company providing qualified Sign Language Interpreters since 1983.

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Disability Resources is a nonprofit organization that provides information about resources for independent living. We disseminate information about books, pamphlets, magazines, newsletters, videos, databases, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, telephone hotlines and on-line services that provide free, inexpensive or hard-to-find information to help people with disabilities live independently.

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Deaf, Counseling, Advocacy & Referral Agency (DCARA), is a non-profit, community-based social service agency serving the Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Late-Deafened and Deaf-blind (D/HH/LD/DB) community. Established in 1962 as one of the first Deaf-run agencies in the country, DCARA provides a comprehensive range of programs and services to the Deaf community living in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area of California.

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